The Linnaean Gardens of Uppsala, Uppsala University
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The Uppsala University Botanical Garden is the oldest botanical garden in Sweden and was founded 1655. It attained worldwide fame in the days of Olof Rudbeck and Carl Linnaeus. The old garden in the city centre is today known as the Linnaeus Garden. The modern botanical garden is situated by Uppsala Castle and houses more than 7,000 plant taxa. A diverse collection of plant taxa is grown in outdoor plantations such as the former palace garden, an arboretum, various systematic plantations, and a rock garden for Scandinavian mountain plants. The Tropical Greenhouse and the oldest Orangery in Sweden continuously used for its original purpose make it possible to also grow non hardy plants. The collections are made available to research, education, and for the public. Linnaeus' summer estate Hammarby outside Uppsala preserves an authentic 18th century milieu which few other Swedish manor-houses do and is a sanctuary for surviving linnaean plant clones.
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- Linnaeus Garden, Uppsala University The Linnaeus Garden is located at the site of the first botanical garden in Sweden founded in 1655 by Olof Rudbeck. It gained worldwide fame thanks to Carl Linnaeus who first, as a student, used his sexual system for plant classification in the garden before publishing it in 1735. Today's garden is a reconstruction of Linnaeus's baroque style garden...
- Linnaeus’ Hammarby, Uppsala University Linnaeus bought his summer estate Hammarby in 1758 and made it in a sense to a private research facility where we still today can study about forty plant species surviving from Linnaeus's days.
- The Botanical Garden, Uppsala University The Botanical Garden of Uppsala University consists of a Baroque garden, the oldest orangery in Sweden still and continuously used for its original purpose, a tropical greenhose, an arboretum, a kitchen garden, various systematically or geographically arranged plantations of trees, shrubs, perennials, and annuals - together these collections enable the garden to represent plants from most...
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